Global Warming Stupidity Runs Rampant | Real Science

During the first half of the 20th century, half of the glacial ice in Alaska and Switzerland disappeared. It had nothing to do with CO2.  You don’t need warming temperatures to melt ice. Ice melts just fine at a fixed temperature above freezing. Who is the idiot who decided that melting glaciers is a sign of ongoing warming?

Unless we are in an ice age, we expect the ice to melt.

The Moon is a Cold Mistress | Watts Up With That?

...These work together with other such mechanisms to maintain the whole system stable to within about half a degree per century. This is a variation in temperature of less than 0.2%. Note that doesn’t mean less than two percent. The global average temperature has changed less than two tenths of a percent in a century, an amazing stability for such an incredibly complex system ruled by something as ethereal as clouds and water vapor … I can only ascribe that temperature stability to the existence of such multiple, overlapping, redundant thermostatic mechanisms.

On IPCCs exaggerated climate sensitivity and the emperor’s new clothes | ScienceBits

[Prof. Nir J. Shaviv] ...However, instead of reaching the reasonable conclusion that the theory should be modified, the data are "surely wrong". (This, btw, is a sign of a new religion, since no fact can disprove the basic tenets).

When you think of it, those climatologists are in a rather awkward position. If you exclude the denial option (apparent in the above quote), then the only way to explain the “travesty” is if you have a joker card, something which can provide warming, but which the models don’t take into account. It is a catch-22 for the modelers. If they admit that there is a joker, it disarms their claim that since one cannot explain the 20th century warming without the anthropogenic contribution, the warming is necessarily anthropogenic. If they do not admit that there is a joker, they must conclude (as described above) that the climate sensitivity must be low. But if it is low, one cannot explain the 20th century without a joker. A classic Yossarian dilemma.

This joker card is of course the large solar effects on climate.

Global Warming - A Coolist's View

Can we simultaneously have the situation in which greenhouse gases produce both relative warming and absolute cooling of the planet? The answer is yes!